Paper Sourcing

Reading through Wednesday's Telegraph whilst on a flight. I came across a section focussed around engineers. In particular it was a page showing who had recently achieved chartered status. 

Now we all know engineers are a difficult bunch to find and chartered ones have a little extra attraction. So how about an entire broadsheet spread of names including what they've chartered in...? Sounds pretty awesome. Combine that with a cross reference through social media and you've got yourself a lovely pool of candidates to target.

That led me to think if that potential pool of candidate is sat there, already verified in a paper then what else can we garner from the press? 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has sourced (or tried to source) candidates that have come up in the press through a Boolean search. Nor will I be the only one who has sourced (or tried to source) after watching a TV show and seeing a potential candidate. But how many times do you look at the paper when your flicking through with your Sourcing hat on? Probably a number of far better sourcers than I for sure, but the rest of us... 

The world is full of little snippets of sourcing gold and some of that data isn't available from the internet or phone. Take a look around!